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For other uses, see Tom Clark (disambiguation). The Last Gas Station & Other Stories.

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Tom Clark's collection of short fiction, The Last Gas Station, is in two contrasting parts. There were some really good stories in this book, and some really average stories. Not the best thing I've ever read, but fairly entertaining. The title story was pretty smart though. It opens with 23 very short prose pieces amusingly surreal California vignettes, some no longer than a page, peopled by denim-clad cowgirls, itinerant lover boys, Martin Heidegger, Boris Pasternak, Muslim college students, Vietnam vets, Ty Cobb, Ted Berrigan, and a great dinosaur po Tom Clark's collection of short fiction, The Last Gas Station, is in two contrasting parts.

He has published numerous poetry collections and a number of critical biographies, including lives of baseball great Mark Fidrych and writers Jack Kerouac and Charles Olson.

Tom Clark combined diverse roles of poet, biographer, novelist, dramatist . The Last Gas Station and Other Stories, Black Sparrow Press, 1980. The Master (novel), Harcourt, 1984.

in the ‘Sleepwalker’s Fate’ is poetry’s first successful X-ray of American psyche as it swims through the ‘90s. The Exile of Celine (novelized biography), Random House (New York City), 1986.

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Other books by Clark. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. Other books by Clark. It opens with 23 very short prose pieces amusingly surreal California vignettes, some no longer than a page, peopled by denim-clad cowgirls, itinerant lover boys, Martin Heidegger, Boris Pasternak, Muslim college students, Vietnam vets, Ty Cobb, Ted Berrigan, and a great dinosaur poet of the Jurassic period

The Last Gas Station and Other Stories. Tom Clark's collection of short fiction, The Last Gas Station, is in two contrasting parts.

The Last Gas Station and Other Stories. It opens with 23 very short prose pieces?amusingly surreal California vignettes, some no longer than a page, peopled by denim-clad cowgirls, itinerant lover boys, Martin Heidegger, Boris Pasternak, Muslim college students, Vietnam vets, Ty Cobb, Ted Berrigan, and a great dinosaur poet of the Jurassic period. Santa Barbara, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1980

The Last Gas Station and Other Stories. Santa Barbara, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Toronto, Coach House Press, 1971. Mixing prose into his books with characteristic flourish, Clark closes out this collection with the prose section "Confessions," in which he recalls his midcentury childhood and adolescence, his schooling in England, and his political and poetic life in the company of Ted Berringan and others.